How To Use Finitude In A Sentence
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The creation was the self-diremption of the infinite into finite expression, the fall was the self-discovery of this finitude, the incarnation was the awakening of the finite to its essential infinity; and here, a sufficient number of pages having been engrossed, the matter generally hastened to a conclusion; for the redemption with its means of application, once the central point in Christianity, was less pliable to the new pantheistic interpretation.
The Life of Reason
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Choosing a human future means drawing upon what for McKibben is the most definitive feature of our species: the ability to recognize and live within limits, to face and accept our own finitude.
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To portray God in human form in a two-dimensional fresco is to limit God's infinitude that is infinitely beyond the powers of the human mind to perceive.
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Science would still be confronted with the same illimitability of space, the same infinitude of matter, and the same incomprehensibility of the world-arranging intelligence that lies beyond.
Life: Its True Genesis
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Then definitude the current condition of DYS through the inside and outside circumstance analysis.
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He must surely have meant that, when you listen to a masterpiece, you have a sense that you are in the presence of infinitude.
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A shroud of thick clouds obscured its furthest side, giving the illusion of infinitude.
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Many of Page's poems offer other varieties of infinitude.
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Concepts, he recognized, were bounded by the laws of thought, their finitude sealed by the principle of contradiction, which holds that contradictory statements cannot both be true.
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`Now shall we all, together, reflect upon the infinitude of existence," Leo began with an earnest quaver in his voice.
SORT OF RICH
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From contemplation of both the very large and the very small comes a strong sense of human finitude.
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The reformation of system of college grad employment brings developmental opportunity for the work of our country's college grad employment and infinitude stress as well.
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It is still possible to defend love and excellence, courage and charity, from those who imagine such real human experiences to be an illusion, and to accept that these virtues and experiences are inseparable from human finitude.
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Christians have said that the story of the fall is about how we invariably try to deny our finitude and escape our mortality and end up making things worse.
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Randomness is a human construct and is a product of our finitude.
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[D] eath and finitude are fundamentally relational, ... constituted in relation to a lifeless material thing whom I love and this thing casts a long mournful shadow across the self.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida
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Please excuse me for obtruding my weakness and my finitude, here, into your daily lives.
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The rivers of emancipated men neither disembogue into the ocean of spirit nor evaporate into the abyss of nonentity, but are blended with infinitude as an ontological integer.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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As Mr Fowles again points out, we find ourselves adrift on a raft, in a silent, unyielding universe, dominated by hazard and infinitude.
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The loveliness of Internet is infinitude and colorful, but strengthen to manage it.
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A buoyant optimism and a stoic acceptance of finitude, a blood-rush of ecstasy and an acquiescence in the logic of mortality have alternated in this magisterial painter's art for more than four decades.
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In debating the use of feeding tubes - or of any mode of treatment for that matter - one must not ignore the concepts of finitude and stewardship by focusing only on the sanctity of life.
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From a 42-year-old man who had felt invincible but now was coming to grips with finitude, limitation and mortality.
Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life
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Our proposition is, that the finite is to be vested in a wager, in which there is an equal chance of gain and loss, and _infinitude to gain_.”
Pascal
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Alice followed Lady Glencora across the passage into what she called her dressing-room, and there found herself surrounded by an infinitude of feminine luxuries.
Can You Forgive Her?
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In his scenes we have the infinitude of soft silver beach, the rolling tumultuousness of a boundless sea, and twisted cedars mounted like toiling ships on the crests of undulating sand-hills.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
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According to Heidegger, finitude is the essence of being human.
The Fourfold Visions of William Blake and Martin Heidegger
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The sublime in Aviram's theory is ‘a sense of infinitude, or excess, specifically in relation to language’, thereby rhythm exists beyond the contingencies of semantic meaning.
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For people such as us, who are obsessed with the recursive nature of signs, it is like a series of mirrors reflecting each other into a distorted infinitude of mixed interpretations and intentions.
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But this restoration of the traditional way of life is haunted by a pervasive sense of historical finitude.
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In a manner of speaking I am thus brought face-to-face with my own finitude, my ‘death’ as the possibility in which I am no longer able to be anything.
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He affirms that the capacity for self-transcendence, the awareness of human finitude and limitations, ‘makes it impossible to accept our truth as the truth.’
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Are there appropriate limits to our quest to overcome finitude and suffering?
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In addition to supporting their validity, it provides a clearer sense of the relation between infinitude, singularity, and whole - part priority, and of the status of space and time as infinite ‘givens.’
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Above him towered infinitude, immensity, potent on his mind through shape to his eye in a soaring dome of blue -- the one visible symbol informed and insouled of the eternal, to reveal itself thereby.
Sir Gibbie
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Death in this sense finds our subjectivity heavily weighted with our own eventual finitude.
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It then offers another way of living with the enormity of pain and suffering in our world-a model of tragic suffering which explores human freedom and finitude in the context of pain.
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Now well into his sixties, he finds that the topic of finitude has gained importance.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is about building a politics on a recognition of human frailty and finitude.
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A shroud of thick clouds obscured its furthest side, giving the illusion of infinitude.
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They asserted that while printed materials have a certain fixity and finitude, texts published via the Internet have a much more fluid character.
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If we perish, it will not be of failure or finitude but of breathless, bright-eyed idealists for whom the sky's the limit.
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This might be why many people have problems saying thank you, as thank you involves recognition of finitude, that one is limited -- that one cannot do it alone.
Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life
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The list includes closure, well-ordering, well-foundedness, and various cardinalities, such as finitude and denumerability.
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It's a novel of stories within stories that aspires to the condition of the imaginary book at its shifting centre - infinitude.
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To say understanding depletes the object understood, and by extension the whole objective world, is merely to say that specificities limit infinitude.
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Because, she was beginning to see, there was between people an infinitude of possibilities which might be realised.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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The circular stair silo that penetrates vertically through the sedimented floor levels is a restatement of human finitude.
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I beg for each and all of you confirmations and assistance from the threshold of oneness, so that those gatherings may become ignited like unto candles, in the republics of America, enkindling the light of the love of God in the hearts; thus the rays of the heavenly teachings may begem and brighten the states of America like the infinitude of immensity with the stars of the Most Great Guidance.
Tablets of the Divine Plan
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Likewise, people consistently use two-word epithets to designate specific organisms within a larger group of organisms, despite there being an infinitude of potentially more logical methods.
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But hoda'ah is also associated with recognition of finitude, with recognition of our natural human limitations which should impel us to declare ani modeh or ani modah -- I admit to my failings.
Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life
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Strenger interprets the quest for various forms of celebrity as a worldwide escapist flight from human finitude and the tragic dimension of human existence into mindless, inauthentic delusions of omnipotence.
Robert D. Stolorow: Review of The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-first Century by Carlo Strenger
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On the aspect of positivism analysis, the finitude of constitution amendment can be divided into procedure finitude and entitative finitude.
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I say this as one who works as a columnist for The Wanderer, the oldest and most venerable national Catholic weekly in America … the first and to a startling degree the onlyCatholic newspaper to sustainedly spotlight these abuses with definitude … investigators who belong to an organization called SNAP [Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests] … whom I interviewed repeatedly … have personal axes to grind against the Church beyond the immediate charges they make.
Tom Roeser
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This, I suppose, is what Critchley means about finitude; we don't think about it, and even when we try to, we can't imagine it.
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The postmodern emphasis on sublimity has tended to stress the sublime as an unreachable beyond, contemplation of which induces a pathos of finitude in any human subject.
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Romantics like me will have to reimagine our passions as they are - unmoored to earth, like an infinitude of cell-phone messages flying through the atmosphere.
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Indeed, its own finitude becomes suddenly visible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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a thematic reading and its terms — death, finitude, history, temporality, and mutability — to a rhetorical reading and its terms — metaphor, metonymy, metalepsis — should not mislead us into thinking that the thematic has simply been left behind, surpassed, as though de Man had succeeded in reducing temporality and history to a question of merely tropological substitutions and transformations.
Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
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Likewise, people consistently use two-word epithets to designate specific organisms within a larger group of organisms, despite there being an infinitude of potentially more logical methods.
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In the title story, we meet a woman whose every tryst with her married lover is marred by her depressing awareness of the affair's finitude.
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This theorem, also called the infinitude of primes theorem, was proved by Euclid in Proposition IX.20 of the Elements.
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One suspects its intricacies are a shorthand for infinitude.
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Living in full acknowledgement of our finitude is the key to being authentic or rather the key to authentic being.
The Fourfold Visions of William Blake and Martin Heidegger
